CrimsonEyes wrote:Honestly, if he's there, it's probably not a terrible roll of the dice to take Geno. Barring that, the best QB on the open market right now is....probably Fitzpatrick, if only because he was moderately approaching competent for a stretch a year ago, which is more than you can say for most of the folks who have been let go. MAYBE Flynn, but I still don't know how much I trust him, and, to me, his body of work is questionable. With the threats Rodgers had, just about anyone could have lit it up. If Wilson hadn't been so good, we could have made some cracks about how Flynn got beat out for the starting job by a rookie, but Wilson was quality, so no shame on him in that.

If it was me, and I didn't think Smith was going to be there, I'd take a stab at Fitzy. Get him a couple of passable passcatchers, you've already got a solid RB, and see what happens.

We've got a core of really good young receivers. They just don't have many catchable balls thrown their way. Fitz might be ok. I'm not sure what to think of Geno. He started out last season on fire.

Am I wrong in remembering that Cleveland's D wasn't wretched last year, or am I way off base on this?

Well, you have to take that with the fact that for the first 4 games, our top flight corner was suspended. And then for the next four games we were still without our monster DT's who were injured in early season / preseason.

Once we had Rubin, Taylor, and Haden on the field, we weren't terrible. We were weak at other CB spot, and had to play this garbage DB named Buster Skrine, who had more PI calls than the rest of the team (hyperbole, that could be true), and our safeties were young, and not good, and we had 1 good LB, 2 that were "meh" 1 that got hurt, and the Fujita debacle.

EDIT: Doom cut his salary, and stays with the Denver Ponies. On paper, this team is really starting to look formidable. *fingers crossed*

"There’s one thing you never put in a trap, if you’re smart. If you value your continued existence. If you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there’s one thing you never, ever put in a trap.......Me." - The 11th Doctor

And if they go to court, it would be funny if the Marlins argue that the reason the fans dont want to renew is because the team had a fire sale. I don't think that would go very well with a jury, seeing how Loria pretty much conned Miami into building him a stadium for a subpar team.

At this point, the upgrades to the Browns Defense better produce the greatest Defense ever to play the game, because we just lost our Points Scored Leader..... Of all time.

At least you can argue that being one of the nice guys, he deserves to have a better shot at a ring.

Oh, I agree.

Right now, the ire is directed at the new front office who has stayed mum about the whole thing. If Phil wanted a chance at a ring, no rational Browns fan would have given him grief about it, and we would have understood. Sure, you have the crazies, but we aren't all terrible.

At this point, the silence feels wrong. Not saying anything feels like they are trying to hide that they didn't want him back. Which is just bat shit crazy. I understand that football is a business, but the man missed 1 kick from 50+ yards over the past two seasons, and 3 from 40+. He's a great kicker, and a great guy, one that I feel should have been allowed to retire as a "one team player" if that was his choice. The silence feels like it wasn't his choice.

Maybe I'm just weird. But there are times, I just feel like people have earned the right to finish their career (in any field) in a way that suits them. Ray should have (and did) retire as a Raven. Brady should retire as a Pat, I wish Manning would have had the chance to retire as a Colt, Mariano has the chance to retire a Yankee, To me Phil is the same for Browns fans. He's been the one constant through the constant upheaval in Cleveland, and he has always been a humble, well spoken man in public.

Vegas for first two rounds of March Madness is probably even more insane. One of these years... *sigh*

... the fact that more potential voters are swayed by a few trivial comments 10 years ago than a candidate literally collapsing is not a good sign and tends to indicate that even if Trump wins, it won't matter.

No electorate that stupid is going to survive long, one way or another.

The Orioles/Ravens scheduling snafu is amusing in how the NFL is playing the victim card and painting the Orioles and MLB as bad guys instead of doing the sane thing and moving the home opener to Wednesday night. They played on Rosh Hashanah last year so no one should buy that excuse.

We live in a society where people born on third base constantly try to steal second, yet we expect people born with two strikes against them to hit a homerun on the first pitch.

The relievers are still sort of in flux, but we have Vinnie Pestano and Joe Smith, so the rest of them will filter out. They were the only two good ones last year that we still have. I'm not going to lie, even though I'm worried that the breeze from all the K's is going to be immense, I think this team can be something good.